Photo: Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz’s books are the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the critically acclaimed story collection Drown.  His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, The Paris Review and Best American Short Stories, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rome Prize. He won the 2007 Sargant First Novel Prize and teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.